Making the Debate Forum Exclusive, What do you think? Options

[NoSex]

As I have spent a significant amount of time participating within these debate forums, I have come to a conviction that these boards would benifit greatly if this page were to become exclusive. Exclusive in the sense that direct permission would have to be given to allow one to participate, as in post, in these forums. Once permission has been granted that individual would have the right to normal posting within this forum.

I suggest this because I believe the quality of these debate forums is suffering and that such an action would greatly increase said quality. Memebers far too oftenly post arguments to never return to the debate threads. Many members do not respect the rules of debate, or make a mockery of such. Some members do not seem capable to be included in a reasonable and intellectual debate. A majority of the arguments posted are repeated arguments which have been served pages worth of rebuttles, yet continue to be posted. This all disrupts the point, and the enjoyement driven from these threads. Because of these reasons, and more, I wish that we could create a more close-knit, intellectual, and interested party for the debate section of Createblog.

(I wanted to have the debate in here, as it was a debate, and I don't think I have any kind of serious influence on policy making here. I just want to see what everyone else thinks. After some deliberation here, maybe some of us could bring this idea, or another, to the attention of those who do make policy here.)

Discuss?

[Spirited Away]

The debate forum worked well when mods frequent this forum and were actively involved in the debates. Remember those days? So, I think so long as we have at least two mods to "patrol" and strictly enforce the rules here, everything would be dandy.

To compromise, I think we could suggest a re-write of the rules--clearly define them--to ensure that anything less than "semi-intelligent" would be closed/discarded/warned/kicked out on its behind. Interviews would be a little over-the-top, and the exclusive barriers wouldn't be very "welcoming", IMHO.

it's fun being an elitist.
or, shall i say, it makes life more interesting.
sure, we shouldn't make it exclusive. but do we have to stop being elitist?

The answer is obviously "NO", damn you! Don't ask such nonsensical questions!

Er...

Oh yea Justin, remember Princess and her friend IIOOOII (or something)? It wasn't fun for ANY of us to have to deal with them, so monsieur Acid Bath Slayer is right on the dot with that one.